Top Army Commanders will assemble here tomorrow to discuss future strategies,
promotion policies and issues pertaining to ex-servicemen, among other things.
This is the first such meeting since General Bikram Singh took over as Army
Chief on June 1.
The conference
will conclude on October 19 when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will jointly
address Commanders of all three services - the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Sources
said that one of the key proposals that the Army Commanders will make to the
Ministry of Defence is on re-employing ex-servicemen in the government set-up
and not just the existing available openings in the paramilitary and some state
police forces.
The
Army wants more avenues to be made available to Junior Commissioned Officers
and other ranks. Most of them retire between the age of 36 and 42 years and are
skilled in specialised tasks and have the tenacity required for high-security
work.
The
Commanders will seek lateral entry for jawans into public sector undertakings
(PSU) and also the government sector. They will suggest that departments need
to be identified in the government where lateral entry is possible.
A
source — giving an example — said that one clear case is of optic fibre cable
(OFC) management. With so much business in India riding on telephony and
internet, jawans from the ‘signals’ regiment could be used to manage the OFCs
running throughout the country.
These
jawans are already trained in managing the dedicated OFCs of the forces and
know its secrecy protocols and the necessary precautions.
Similarly,
the Army trains its jawans in the engineers regiment to repair heavy equipment,
machinery and even helicopters.
The
government and PSUs can utilise these instead of opting for unskilled workers
outside. Also, the men are highly skilled drivers in high altitudes.
Additional
natural employment for the jawans are high-risk and skill jobs like working on
oil rigs, gas pipelines, oil pipelines - all these are expected to form the
proposal.
Besides
this issue, the Army Commanders will deliberate on having an enduring human
resource promotion policy from the level of Major Generals and above.
By the kind courtesy of Tribune News Service
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